On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Scott Sharp, lead partner for merger and acquisition specialists S. Lawrence & Company -- VIP members of the Small Business Association in Michigan. They do a lot of planning to help entrepreneurs transition out of their small business. “You wouldn't write your will in the ambulance on the way to the hospital, and you should not have that type of short term mentality about the transition of the business that you have worked hard to grow and develop and the people in it that helped you grow and develop,” he says.
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Jeff Dodson, the owner of Dodson Payments Solutions and a VIP member of the Small Business Association of Michigan. He observes that the biggest opportunity for small businesses is having multiple payment options for their customers. “With a business owner, whether it's a restaurant or even a retail shop, they just have that challenge of having one person to help them manage all that,” he says.
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Dominic Serra, the founder and CEO of Metro Wireless International Inc., and a VIP member of the Small Business Association in Michigan. “I see in the future, offices scaling down, not going away completely, but having to have two or three Internet connections, because if nobody's in that office, and the one Internet connection goes down, the whole company grinds to a halt,” he says.
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Doug Jenkins, the CEO of Kimberly Lighting and a VIP member of the Small Business Association in Michigan. “LED costs have dropped dramatically, and the lumens per watt have increased, which means a lower amount of energy that each fixture takes up,” Kimberly says. “Your cost recovery period seems to be about a year and a half or less,” when replacing fluorescents.
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Bill Koetting, the president of energy storage solutions company Prime Energy Contract Services. They’re VIP members of the Small Business Association of Michigan. “For commercial applications for batteries, that's what we want to focus on -- getting something into our customers hands that reduce operating costs, ultimately providing more profit for them,” he says.
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Tarolyn Buckles, CEO of engineering, consulting and construction management firm Onyx Enterprises, and a member of the Michigan 50 companies to Watch. “My mission to sustain communities is in line with the journey I've had in my career from environmental to civil engineering to transportation to water resources projects, making sure that we have clean water,” she says.
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Keith Paul, the founder and CEO of HandyPro handyman services and a member of the Michigan 50 Companies to Watch. One of their specialties is modifying homes for aging-in-place. “It's so much cheaper to stay in a house rather than go into assisted living, if you can avoid that,” he says. “It's where my mom and dad want to live, they don't want to leave, so they're glad we're in this business.”
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Dawn Levian, the owner of Break Room Therapy and a VIP member of the Small Business Association. “My customers come in after having scheduled their session and they break glass or electronics because either they're dealing with something and they're looking for a different way to process those feelings, or just because I need a new entertainment and amusement item to do,” Levian says.
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Seth Essling, comptroller for Safety Services, Inc., a third generation family-owned distributor of safety equipment and products and a VIP member of the Small Business Association of Michigan. “Manufacturing facilities, hospitals, police departments, emergency responders, many of these people are our customers, and they're relying on us,” Essling says. “So we absolutely have to step up and provide for these essential workers.”
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, an inspiring story of how a small southeast Michigan company harnessed its entrepreneurial spirit to provide a sensor component vital to COVID vaccine distribution. Michael Rogers talks with Cathy Koch, president and CEO of K-Tec Systems, a global manufacturer of advanced control and automation technology.
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Bob Reichenbach, the president of Environmental Resources Group environmental consultants, and a member of the Michigan 50 companies to watch. Their growth strategy includes acquisitions. “We evaluate the folks in the business, determine if their services are complementary and if they meet our financial criteria,” he says. “We've been in growth mode since the inception of the business and we don't know any other way to operate right now.”
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with professional trainer and coach Laurel Romanella, the owner of Laurel & Co. -- a VIP member of the Small Business Association in Michigan. As small businesses work to recover from COVID restrictions and build toward future success, she says “I think the vision piece is really key. As I work with teams, one thing I found that eliminates their anxiety is having that clear plan.”
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Kevin DeBruyn, the founder of Adaptive Counseling and Case Management in Traverse City, and a VIP member of the Small Business Association of Michigan. He describes himself as a health care entrepreneur. “We started to work more closely with primary care to help people make some of those behavioral changes that are necessary to better control things like diabetes, high blood pressure, all of those chronic conditions that cause people so much trouble,” he says.
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with business coach Jeff Jackson, owner of J. Ross and Associates (an SBAM VIP Member.) “Make sure you've got the right seats in the organization and then get the right people in those seats, because you have to spend time scenario-planning in this environment,” he says. “What if the top line shrinks by 20 percent? But if it shrinks by 40 percent? What do I have to look like? What's the organization look like?”
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Andy Tabisz, owner of custom database development firm WorkSmart Database Masters, and a VIP member of the Small Business Association of Michigan. He helps companies use their database more efficiently. “We just really go in and enhance it to provide that automation so that instead of three, four or five keystrokes, they can do it in one keystroke, or really get the data in much more efficiently and get the data out the way they expect,” he says.
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Sunny Reddy, CEO of VoIP Office and a VIP member of the Small Business Association of Michigan. “People look at the telephone as a telephone, so they should start looking at it -- how can I make use of that new technology?” he says. “And especially with the pandemic situation, definitely the telecom solutions will help them grow their business.”
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Stacy Paul, CEO of Array of Engineers, a certified women owned small business in Grand Rapids and a member of the Michigan 50 Companies to Watch for 2020. “A big part of what we do is giving back to our community by promoting STEM for younger generations,” she says. “We mentor and sponsor a robotics team and a lot of the qualities we teach them are also soft skills. Even if they don’t become an engineer or go into a STEM field it will help them become just a better person.”
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Chris Burger, operations manager for Northern Wings in Newberry, a member of the Michigan 50 Companies to Watch for 2020. Attracting quality employees to the rural Upper Peninsula is a challenge. “Developing an internal training program to bring local talent up has provided a particular measure of longevity.” Burger says.
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Tricia Ruby, president and CEO of Ruby+Associates, a structural engineering firm devoted to serving the construction industry and a member of the Michigan 50 Companies to Watch for 2020. “We spend a lot of time on recruiting and making sure we're hiring the right people,” she says. “We don't want cookie cutter people by any means. We want people to be creative and have a voice.”
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Phil Roos, CEO of Great Lakes GrowthWorks and a member of the Michigan 50 Companies to Watch for 2020. His company’s mission is to “transcend disruption and inspire transformational growth” -- appropriate for small firms trying to cope with COVID-19. “Just hanging with it and having that perseverance and being willing to challenge all the assumptions, that’s what we try to help people do,” he says.
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with John Schmidt, the owner of Tri-City Groundbreakers, a full service heavy and civil contractor and a VIP member of the Small Business Association of Michigan. “We can do more with less,” he says. “We've implemented technology, GPS and automated grading, and we took some big leaps of faith and made some large investments early on that have really helped ramp up our production rates and make us more efficient.”
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Tobi Lyon, owner of Ngage Management, a full-service association and event management company that was named to the Michigan 50 Companies to Watch list for 2020. “It's okay to have failures, failures lead to success,” she says. “And being that authentic, and I think all of our clients, what they will tell you in what they value of us is all of our staff is very transparent. They're not going to give you a sales pitch and deliver things that they can't.”
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Monica Mitidieri, the owner of Monica’s Gourmet Cookies and a member of the Michigan 50 Companies to Watch for 2020. She started as a small caterer but now has her cookies in stores across the state. “I think it was just literally calling and finding out who it is that you need to talk to, not just oh, here's some cookies, tell me what you think later,” she says. “You really need to speak to somebody that's the decision maker.”
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with SBAM member Beth Milner, owner of Beth Milner Jewelry in Marquette and a member of the Michigan 50 Companies to Watch for 2020. “My jewelry really shows the things that people love about Michigan’s Upper Peninsula so you’re seeing natural scenes and little landscapes and trees,” she says. “Another thing that I think sort of sets us apart is we use primarily recycled metal.”
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Ken Whitinger, CEO of Mid-Michigan Interactive, an online marketing business and VIP member of the Small Business Association of Michigan. He says it’s important to make the visibility of your COVID policy a part of your online marketing. “It’s crucial for your website and Google, and you can post it on Facebook, what your precautions are.”
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)